cheap motorcycles what to buy?

I spent 2 weeks riding a bus around the UK listening to a US Army Apache pilot
instructor beg his wife to let him trade his '94 GW. He kept telling her is was
getting tired and she kept reminding him it was only 3 years old. I finally
asked him if it had a problem. His answer was that it was over 200k miles and
he was just tired of it. Turns out he worked in San Diego and commuted over 200
miles a day to work on it. He should have been taking the Apache home!

Lugnut

 

You must work on old brit or italian junk then. I'm redoing a Titan
this winter. It will be ridable come summper. That includes a rebuilt
crank, rebuilt top end, rebuilding the oil injector hoses and the ONLY
thing that will slow me down or take some time is the new seat cover
and cutting the foam down to make ME happy. I'll be looking for a
donor tail light and instrument cluster at my local salvage adn yes
virginia I know for a fact they have parts to replace my destroyed
parts. They wont be FOR a Titan but I don't care. Mine is being built
to ride, ride hard and ride far. So what the purests want doesn't
matter to me one bit. It was made to ride every day not set in a damn
climate controlled enviroment never to see the light of day lest that
perfect factory paint job fades or the rubber rots.

No, no it wouldn't cost that much.

Whiner. $300 for a SYSTEM ROTFLMAO!!! I've seen JUST a right side
muffler for a GL1000 go for $800usd so cry me a river. Who cares about
perfect? As long as it isn't rusted through it is just fine. Nothing a
little elbow grease and a rechrome wont fix. Oh and FYI to keep the
chromer happy run the muffler through some electrolysis to clean out
all the crud. I'll be doing that for a fuel tank AND a oil tank AND a
crankshaft this wiinter. Now quit bitiching...if I bought a 81 CB it's
be throwing the stock muffler in a dumpster and bolting on a Yosh
pipe, jet the carbs and get on down the road in a better running
motorcycle than stock.

That sounds like the words of a quitter.

 

Fine let's see you change the primary chain on a GL1000 WITHOUT
pulling the motor. 8^) Or replace the cooling fan temp sensor WITHOUT
disassembling the front of the motorcycle...there's a reason I have
the part and haven't done it yet.

Oh and while you are at it could you please change the oil filter on
my Titan? I'll buy the beer!

 

I think Dave Silver sells them for less than that, new, in the UK.

 

Well, you would choose the most complex 1970s bike of all (except,
possibly, the Suzuki RE5....

If I change the cam as well, would you up the ante to a bottle of
Scotch?

 

Is NOT! very simple and basic, well maybe the starter clutch pawl is
tricky. But the rest is simple.

Naturally...I know I can get Glenffidich or Mccallan not sure about
something nice like Laphrong<sic> were you thinking something young or
breaking the bank? I'm not brave enough to look up some ages I'd like
to try. I mean if it's $500+ a glass...<shudder>

 

That's the problem one has commuting. You get tired of your motorcycle
eventually. That's why you simply have to have a minimum of two
motorcycles. But hey that's just an opinion don't take it as gosple.

 

What year is the CB750 you have?

JC Whitney has the chrome megaphone mufflers that will clamp or weld
on that are a passable imitation of the original Honda mufflers for $50 a
muffler.

Oops..

Ted

 

<Looks at sig and nods sagely>

 

You wouldn't bother to reason with a drunk in a bar, why try to reason
with Keith?

I'm sure you have better things to do with your time than to read or
respond to Keith's psychologically disturbed ravings. He's been at it
on rec.motorcycles for at least ten years now, and the drugs and
alcohol just make him worse.

Recently he's been following the argumentative nut that styles himself
as "The Older Gentleman" into rec.motorcycles.tech and dragging the
group down to Reeky levels.

 

http://www.davidsilverspares.co.uk

New systems still available, not particularly expensive (considering)
and he ships to the US.

This place's url should be tattooed on the back of the hand of every old
Honda user.

 

Bukkae snipped...nothing worth commenting on here, move along, move
along. Dick is just being a DICK again, no surprises.

 

Yeah but no images...some of us still like the stock look.

 

There's UK sales tax of 17.5% on top, but for export, that would be
exempt. The pound is worth about a buck and a half now, so it's roughly
a grand, US. Plus shipping. I don't think that's bad for a genuine OE
4-4 system for a bike that's approaching 40 years old.

The 4-1 is (IIRC) a Motad. I used one on my SOHC CB750F2. Worked fine.
Well finished, too.

 

If you look at the site again, he has two categories: OE Honda and
pattern. OE Honda will be, er, um, genuine stock.

 

ROTFLMAO early ford guy is no 16 y/o kid you shithead...stop acting as
STUPID as .p. I've known you too long and you aren't that damn dumb.

 

IMHO that's not worth it for his year. Now, if he had one of the
68 or 69 bikes with the sand-cast parts, that's a whole different ballgame.

The 4 into 1 is the way to go, plus it gives you a power boost as
you can take advantage of exhaust scavenging.

Ted

 

I suspected that. The CB750 from years prior to 79 was a completely
different animal from the 79 and later CB750s. And, parts are scarcer
because so many of those were made that a lot of people now are doing
like your doing and getting them back in running order, so it's making
parts for the earlier ones more in demand.

I wouldn't have advised Fordguy to go for a pre79 CB750 for the
reasons you cited.

I'm glad you like it, I prefer my DOHC over the SOHC though.

Ted

 

A Motad system gives no power advantage.